This has very little to meaningfully do with anything, but I know someone that had long covid, and it ruined their life and career etc. because of barely being able to function more than a few "good" hours a day. They got covid again about two year later, was moderately sick for a week, and then completely healed, 100% back to normal. Absolutely blew my mind.
A lot of the hypotheses about Long <insert virus here> are about how well your body cleared the remnants. You can have a persistent reservoir of something for quite a long time until your body finally decides to clear it out.
One of the canonical examples of this are warts from HPV. There are documented cases of people having persistent infections until they "injured" a wart somehow, their body finally took notice, and then their body proceeded to completely clear all of them.
Modern medicine really does not deal with active viruses or their aftermath very well.
This is talking about private funding. The problem is that we don't have enough understanding to know where to start and private funding works very poorly in such situations.
And I'm sure public funding is tied up in politics. Covid is too politicized.
Senator Bernie Sanders has a plan with several co-sponsors to try to make a 10-year "long-covid moonshot" but given how politics work in this country it will never happen unless watered down to something useless and meaningless.
Why? Is this a higher research priority than other medical conditions such as cancer or HIV? Are there plausible reasons to think that epic scale funding would significantly accelerate results?
I agree. We should research it at a level appropriate for the damage long covid is causing. Which is probably a lot, because it seems like a real thing that is impacting lots of people; but it's far from the most important medical problem we have.
This same phenomenon isn't unique to Covid either. Other illnesses can lead to similar debilitations. Research into this will give great insight into processes we hardly understand.
Of course it's not the #1 healthcare priority now but who says we should only solve problem #1 and leave all the others hanging?
I know a health worker that worked hard to save lives during the first phases of Covid and her life is now ruined due to this. I doubt she can be 'cured' but at least this may be prevented for others.
This has very little to meaningfully do with anything, but I know someone that had long covid, and it ruined their life and career etc. because of barely being able to function more than a few "good" hours a day. They got covid again about two year later, was moderately sick for a week, and then completely healed, 100% back to normal. Absolutely blew my mind.
A lot of the hypotheses about Long <insert virus here> are about how well your body cleared the remnants. You can have a persistent reservoir of something for quite a long time until your body finally decides to clear it out.
One of the canonical examples of this are warts from HPV. There are documented cases of people having persistent infections until they "injured" a wart somehow, their body finally took notice, and then their body proceeded to completely clear all of them.
Modern medicine really does not deal with active viruses or their aftermath very well.
outrageous.
gov't should be massively funding at an absolutely epic scale
This is talking about private funding. The problem is that we don't have enough understanding to know where to start and private funding works very poorly in such situations.
And I'm sure public funding is tied up in politics. Covid is too politicized.
Senator Bernie Sanders has a plan with several co-sponsors to try to make a 10-year "long-covid moonshot" but given how politics work in this country it will never happen unless watered down to something useless and meaningless.
https://longcovidmoonshot.com/
Well unless big pharma can cash out on it like crazy. Then it'll be a huge success.
Why? Is this a higher research priority than other medical conditions such as cancer or HIV? Are there plausible reasons to think that epic scale funding would significantly accelerate results?
I agree. We should research it at a level appropriate for the damage long covid is causing. Which is probably a lot, because it seems like a real thing that is impacting lots of people; but it's far from the most important medical problem we have.
This same phenomenon isn't unique to Covid either. Other illnesses can lead to similar debilitations. Research into this will give great insight into processes we hardly understand.
Of course it's not the #1 healthcare priority now but who says we should only solve problem #1 and leave all the others hanging?
I know a health worker that worked hard to save lives during the first phases of Covid and her life is now ruined due to this. I doubt she can be 'cured' but at least this may be prevented for others.
I think he's being sarcastic.